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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Chris Pacia <ctpacia@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Revisiting NODE_BLOOM: Proposed BIP
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:25:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150821222545.GE7450@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB+qUq5H1Ggzgdc-X7CPAz9orhMgPgQc4_G8TdC-oeSr174p1A@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 06:15:16PM -0400, Chris Pacia wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2015 2:07 AM, "Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev" <
> bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > Also, as I mentioned, just look at the popularity of wallets such as
> > Mycelium that are not adopting bloom filters, but going with SPV
> > verification of block headers w/ lookup servers.
> 
> Related I recently had a conversation with a Mycelium employee who told me
> they were considering moving to spv/bloom because of the server issues
> Andreas mentioned.
> 
> I don't know any more about their plans, but I wouldn't assume the above
> statement to be correct.

That'd be a foolish design decision to move exclusively over; their
wallet was safe to use during the recent fork, unlike Android Wallet,
precisely because of their existing design.

In any case, regardless of whether we're wrong about the popularity
issue, I've yet to see any issues raised with implementing NODE_BLOOM
that will adversely affect such wallets - we've certainly got no
shortage of node capacity to go around.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-21 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-21  4:46 Matt Corallo
2015-08-21  5:38 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21  5:42   ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 17:55     ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-21 22:06       ` Peter Todd
2015-08-22  1:08         ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-22  1:48           ` Peter Todd
2015-08-24 15:19         ` Tom Harding
2015-08-24 17:39           ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-22  1:08       ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-21  5:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-08-21  5:55   ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21  6:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-08-21  6:07       ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 22:15         ` Chris Pacia
2015-08-21 22:25           ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-08-21 23:08         ` Tom Harding
2015-08-24 15:21           ` Mike Hearn
2015-08-21  8:31     ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-08-21 17:53   ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-24 15:29 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-08-24 17:37   ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-24 17:41     ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-08-24 17:58       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-24 18:00     ` Peter Todd
2015-08-24 18:07       ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-24 18:15         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-24 18:28           ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-24 18:30           ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-08-24 18:33             ` Eric Lombrozo

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